Todd Pletcher
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Todd A. Pletcher (born June 26, 1967 in Dallas, Texas) is an American Thoroughbred horse trainer.
Pletcher was raised in the horse racing business by his father who was a trainer. His first major win came for Canadian stable owner Eugene Melnyk in the 1998 Queen's Plate, Canada's most prestigios race. Recently, he won the 2004 Kentucky Oaks, the 2005 Blue Grass Stakes and is a three-time winning trainer of the Cigar Mile Handicap. Among his numerous other important graded stakes races, in 2004 his horses won the Breeders' Cup Sprint and the Breeders' Cup Distaff.
Todd Pletcher was voted the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer that year and again in 2005.
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